The Greater and Lesser Cycle

There’s a clean underlying cycle that everything in this universe is built on. I like to call it the 'Third Motion.' It’s a 360-degree loop, and it repeats inside itself—another 360 on the inside, like a wheel within a wheel. That inner 360 isn’t a copy of the messy world; it’s the opposite. It’s the outline of what it should be. It’s the anchor that keeps the whole system from shredding into chaos - the anti-aliasing layer. It’s the smoothing pass, the perfect circle that everything else wants to line up with. This is basically what Plato meant by the world of forms—an underlying perfect structure that the physical world only approximates.

Humans don’t line up with it. Biology doesn’t line up with it. History doesn’t line up with it. Why? Because a perfect cycle sampled at any finite resolution produces an indistinct residue. That residue shows up as stuff we don't notice - piled up. The constant five-degree slip that sneaks order into chaotic systems? The ~26,500-year oscillatory thing our planet does that creates pentagons, fivefold symmetry, and the phi-based growth pattern in life? It sneaks right past our nose. And because precession moves one degree every 72 years, accumulated retrograde years made of 5-day slips alternate with 72-year blocks. As I explored in past posts, when you take that 5 and that 72 and multiply them, you get the 360 again.

The distortion pattern that astronomers call "error" and keeps us believing in our world as a random, unresolved mystery literally folds back on itself through jagged, discontuous patterns into the same 360-degree totality following this logic. But, in order to get there, you have to be looking for pattern in the fractal irregularities of astronomical cycles. One who dares not diligently trace its path, might not find an encryption - may completely miss total loss becoming subtle rearrangement like the imprint a particle leaves on the surface of a black hole as it vanishes into obscurity.